BLAMEWORTHINESS Synonyms: 23 Similar and Opposite Words

blameworthiness

noun

Definition of blameworthiness

as in culpability

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Noun

The case has also sparked deep public divisions over her culpability and the issues around maternal mental health after childbirth.

— Leah Willingham, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026
The long delay before Davis was charged, DiGiacomo said, did not mean Las Vegas investigators doubted his culpability.

— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of culpability

Noun

Women Unknown — Scandinavian in both its aesthetic and precision — was always going to be about class, complicity and survival.

— Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 6 Sep. 2026
But by rooting her tale in Maya’s family ties, the writer-director explores the complicity of well-to-do South Asian diasporas, and the foundations that afford them the luxury of emigrating in the first place.

— Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of complicity

Noun

But soon after, in Genesis 18, God tells Abraham of plans to investigate reports of sinfulness in Sodom and Gomorrah.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 July 2026
Denver author Josiah Hesse was raised by Evangelical parents in churches that believe in the torments of hell, that their poverty is due to their sinfulness and lack of faith.

— Sandra Dallas, Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2026

Definition of sinfulness

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Ricky Anderson entered what is known as an Alford plea, acknowledging that prosecutors had enough evidence to support a conviction without admitting guilt.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Sep. 2026
Graf also reiterated that his ruling was not a definitive finding of guilt, which will have to be determined by a jury during a future trial.

— Jack Birle, The Washington Examiner, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of guilt

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That drew condemnation in the volatile region that remains ethnically divided more than three decades after the war, which started when Bosnia's Serbs took control over swaths of the country's territory to form their own state.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Sep. 2026
Police shot at an unarmed crowd protesting apartheid pass laws on March 21, 1960, and drew international condemnation.

— Michelle Gumede, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2026

Definition of condemnation

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